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RIP Steven Vincent

by Michael Cote

Fri Aug 05, 2005 at 12:07:01 PM EST

Freelance NYC blogger killed in Iraq; reports and rumors are flying he was targeted and shot down by a death squad.

RIP

Here is National Review's TRIBUTE

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RIP Steven Vincent | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

this story, that reporter, and referring NRO (5.00 / 1) (#1)

makes me long for the old days.

i'm sure many of us recall them, times not THAT long ago when i claimed to be -- and actually was -- moderate. small "L" principles have always been important to me.

in those times i'd reach across the philosophical divide to search for real discussion because i wanted to participate in the true exchange of ideas that might refresh my own thinking to reasonable solutions of our common problems.

that was another era, when maybe it was really possible to dialogue with those differing in opinion and the likes of NRO might actually publish ideas rather than strive to 'advance agendas'.

long past due, may that era rest in peace alongside of Steven Vincent.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw

by luaptifer on Sat Aug 06, 2005 at 01:11:00 PM EST

"Something shifted" (5.00 / 1) (#2)

and it wasn't me!

I STILL refer to myself as moderate: fiscally and environmentally conservative, socially liberal.

My ideals and beliefs are the same as they have always been.

by Cho on Sat Aug 06, 2005 at 01:35:00 PM EST
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Cho, we missed limited distribution (none / 0) (#3)

of the revised Abridged New World Dictionary, blind faith edn.. i understand it's gone out of print.

by luaptifer on Sat Aug 06, 2005 at 02:36:01 PM EST
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: Luaptifer, that must be it (none / 0) (#4)

Or I did the twentieth first century version of some sort of sinister Rip Van Winkle, with a nasty political twist!!

by Cho on Sat Aug 06, 2005 at 10:15:59 PM EST
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reaching across the cultural divide may have (none / 0) (#5)

played into the fate that took Vincent's life, according to Juan Cole. the affair with his Iraqi interpreter might not have been very popular in her family.

of course that would detract zero from an honest willingness to hold partisan policy to account. the story might be less spinnable in wingworld, however.

by luaptifer on Mon Aug 08, 2005 at 02:16:35 PM EST

RIP Steven Vincent | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

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